Aprilynne Pike's Blog, page 18

Fan Art

I am exhausted. I am going to bed.:) However, Stacy the Awesome reminded me that I haven't posted my super-incredible fan art yet!! So I wanted to make sure I did that tonight because it was so awesome! Not only was it very well done, it was just simply so fun to have someone like my book enough to take the time to do fan art for it.

And then they laminated it!! (Excellent for authors who have to put art in their luggage.)

So thank you Leah and Brittany!!




Isn't it pretty!!!

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I'm Back! (And Come Party!!)

Thanks so much for all the lovely comments while I was gone! It was so much fun to come back to them!!

Wow.

Tour was amazing.

Simply amazing.

And school visits? They are awesome. SO incredibly awesome. Teens are the absolute best demographic in the world to write for!! I only did school visits in Chicago this week, (more next week! Yay!!) but oh my goodness, the teenagers in Chicago are so great!!! I got FAN ART!!! Really good fan art!! (Unfortunately, my husband absconded with my phone tonight, so

Faeries and Flowers and Trolls, Oh My!!;)

Today the Blog Tour welcomes . . . .Me!! Ha! Well, sorta. Actually, I am welcoming Laurel! The star of WINGS!!! A bit about WINGS from Laurel's point of view:

"Wings is the story of how everything in my life changed. I moved to a new city, met my first boyfriend, started public school, and, um, found out I was a faerie. And not the way you might think. Faeries . . . well, let's just say the stories have them all wrong. Or, kind of wrong. It's understandable! So now my life is exciting . . . and

Witches and Princes and The-Ugliest-Shoes-In-The-World, Oh My!

Welcome back to blog tour! I have a really fun book for you guys today: Fortune's Folly by Deva Fagan! (Seriously, how can any book by someone named Deva be anything but WIN!??) A bit about FF (as we at the Debs like to call it.;)):

Ever since her mother died and her father lost his shoemaking skills, Fortunata has survived by telling fake fortunes. But when she's tricked into telling a grand fortune for a prince, she is faced with the impossible task of fulfilling her wild prophecy-or her father

Six Days Out Contest!!

Okay, so I've been informed that Borders may be stocking my book early. *Squee* In honor of that, I am holding a fun contest.

Catch WINGS out in the wild!!

First person to email me a picture of WINGS on any store shelf (or floor display . . . just, yanno, in a bookstore and up for sale;)) wins a YA book of their choice plus a decal and whatever else I feel like throwing in there. The second and third people to email me pics get decals and chocolate.

This contest is open to anyone, including intern

Didn't Win?? Try Again! . . .Twice!

Hey! There are two contests for a Wings book or ARC going on right now. So if you didn't win on Twitter, you might want to try these ones!

Alex Moore has an interview as well as the first chapter up:

And Nancy at Ravenous reader is doing a fun giveaway too! Check them out!!

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The Contest of Awesome!!

Okay, okay, most of you caught me; the main point of the contest was to get a few followers going on Twitter since I am pretty new. But WOW!! I was not expecting to wake up this morning to 100 followers!! You guys are awesome!!

With that being said the winner is . . . WesleyKHarris! Wes, please email (aprilynne pike at gmail dot com) or send me a direct message on Twitter with your address and I will get this book in the mail to you today!

Keep an eye on the blog the next few days; I have this ten

Wings UK Giveaway!

Good Morning!

With only eight days before Wings comes out, I figured I'd better have the giveaway of the UK copy pretty quickly so that the winner can still get the book early. So without delay, here's the contest!

You have twenty-four hours to send me an @aprilynnepike twitter with some kind of "enter me" message. That's it! Anyone may enter unless you are immediately related to me (sorry Mom and Dad!;)) and this contest closes at 8:00 AM MST tomorrow. I'll announce the winner and as soon as they

Kenny the Superstar!!!

It's over!!! It's done!!!

My husband graduated from Law school yesterday. It was awesome and amazing and incredible! He has worked so, so hard for this. And even during the summers when he had off, did he sit around and enjoy some well-deserved time off? No. He did research for two professors his first summer and an externship for the Utah Supreme Court his second summer and on top of that, when those were over, he watched kids for most of the day so that *I* could write! My husband is amazing.

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Twitter, UK Book, and Graduation-ness!

Hello again! Okay, so my support request to Twitter resulted in a return email that basically said that since whoever is impersonating my on Twitter is not actually actively tweeting, they are low priority. So, yeah, whatever! I am going to start Twittering anyway!!! So here are five reasons you should follow "Aprilynne" on Twitter!

5.) Tour. There is never internet access in any kind of convenient location. But I can Twitter from my phone! So avoid the tour crickets and follow my adventures on T